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naptu2:
The monster era

Funny enough, I was watching this video just last week.


In the late 1970s, the biggest stars in the IWA were The Mighty Igor and Mil Mascaras, the biggest stars in the NWA were Dusty Rhodes, Rick Flair and Harley Race and the biggest stars in the WWF were Andre The Giant and Bob Backlund.

Bob Backlund was the WWF president. Vince McMahon senior wanted a good guy who was like the guy next door to be his champion. He wanted someone that everybody could relate to. (I really seriously bought into that gimmick when I was a kid. Bob Backlund and his chicken wing).

However, Vince McMahon Jr took over as chairman of the WWF in 1982 and he had a very different idea. He wanted his champions to be monsters. He preferred to have enormous creatures as his superstars.

Vince McMahon Jr wanted Hulk Hogan to be his champion, but he didn't want to devalue the brand that his father had created. Therefore, he had to move the championship from Bob Backlund to Hulk Hogan without making Backlund lose to Hogan. He also had to do it in a way that did not annoy Backlund.

Vince McMahon decided to use the Iron Sheikh as a vehicle to achieve his goal. He told Bob Backlund that he would have to drop the title to the Iron Sheik, but that he would later be given the opportunity to win it back. The Iron Sheikh defeated Bob Backlund in this match in 1983. In order to protect Backlund's legacy, it was designed so that his manager would throw in the towel against his wishes. Backlund never won the title back from him. Instead, Hulk Hogan defeated Sheikhy Baby in 1984. The Iron Sheikh did not fight any major wrestler during his reign as champion (he was only a vessel, not a star). Instead he feuded with people like Salvatore Bellomo. Hulk Hogan became the champion in 1984 and the Hulkamania era began.


Vince McMahon brought enormous wrestlers to the WWF. I remember watching Killer Khan in the early 1980s (during McMahon Sr's era) and thinking that he was enormous and scary. However, he looked relatively small by the time he returned to the WWF in the late 1980s. Vince brought the Ultimate Warrior, Sid Justice, Lex Lugar and even ginormous characters like Giant Gonzalez (who broke Andre The Giant's height record) and Yokozuna (who broke Andre's weight record) to the WWF.

This later caused problems for him because the US Congress investigated the WWF for supplying steroids to wrestlers in order to make them bigger.


Back then I didn't know that Vince McMahon was the chairman of the WWF. He had acted as a commentator and interviewer when his father was chairman and he continued to act in that role after he became chairman. He hired a man, Jack Tunney, to act as president and CEO of the WWF (onscreen). Then, in the late 1980s or early 1990s, McMahon acted as CEO of the World Bodybuilding Federation, a subsidiary of the WWF. It was only in the 1990s that they made it clear that Vince was the chairman of the WWF.

Earlier today one of my nephews called me to say that Vince McMahon had retired from the WWE. He said that there were allegations that Vince had affairs with some people and paid them to keep it quite. He also said that Stephanie McMahon will take over as chairman of the organisation.



The Iron Sheikh defeats Bob Backlund to become WWF champion (1983).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFzSMKpWtuw

Yesterday, our officers on 3rd Mainland Bridge prevented one Dauda Yakub (29) from jumping into the Lagoon.
He was sitting on the railing when the officer managed to persuade him from diving.
He was handed over to Adekunle Div for them to re-unite him with his family.

#TheGoodGuys

daveP:
We know Rohr ended badly, but pls he's wat way way ahead of Waldrum. Haba na.


Rohr had his own system, conservative though, and it worked but progression and tweaks, adjustments were his undoing.


With Randy, you can't even see any system at play. In fact, look at the style used in 2018 Wafcon and compare to this 2022. It's exactly the same. Randy na just handler extraordinaire. Rohr's style got the SE to the WC with games in hand. Rohr annihilated bitter rivals.


Randy rather face the media and accuse them of distractions, Asif he's coming to do one prime Conte or Klopp project.


Rohr will recognize a player is tired and do the necessary.


This Nuga Coach is down the ladder. He's by no means better than the local coaches. Mention them. Infact this is rather a deal he benefits from than SF benefitting from him. Cv don boost for him now. He can leave. They should get rid of him.

naptu2:
She was very demoralised and depressed when she got injured a second time because it seems like she was very hungry for the Pichichi and the injury made it seem like she would not get it. She posted the first tweet yesterday after the game against Atletico.

(Many people didn't understand her tweet when she got injured and some people did not understand yesterday's tweet).

Picture 2: Asisat Oshoala and Rasheedat Ajibade during yesterday's game between Atletico Madrid and Barcelona.

This year made me realise that if you don't fall, you don't know the power of comeback. You don't know what comeback means

2021/2022 season was really tough for me as an individual

naptu2:
She was scoring a lot of goals this season and it seemed certain that she would be the highest goal scorer. Then she got injured and was out for 2 months (she was injured in November and came back in January). Asisat Oshoala Injured, To Be Out Of Action For Two Months

She scored a few more goals then she was injured at the Super Falcons camp in Abuja in February. It was the day after that injury was confirmed that she tweeted in frustration. She had only just come back from a 2 month injury and now she was facing another 2 month injury. https://www.nairaland.com/6993500/wafcon-qualifier-ify-onumonus-brace#110349448

She came back in April and yet she still won the Pichichi. She tweeted about it again yesterday. Check out the next post for yesterday's tweet.

Parachoko:
I wander why Gaelle Enganamouit retire so early.

naptu2:
There are many stories this morning (Davido, etc), but Uchenna Kanu's story was the best for me. She recorded the Falcons as they were gathered in a room to watch the awards ceremony on an Ipad and she posted the moment that they announced that Asisat Oshoala had won.



https://www.instagram.com/stories/uchenna_kanu_19/2887562214935339138/

https://www.instagram.com/stories/uchenna_kanu_19/2887562197478519587/

https://www.instagram.com/stories/uchenna_kanu_19/2887562247340349998/

https://www.instagram.com/stories/uchenna_kanu_19/2887562219498550931/

National Team of the Year (Women)

Due to the absence of a major women’s competition during the period under review, the Organising Team for the CAF Awards 2022 has reviewed the selection process for this important category. The TotalEnergies Women’s Africa Cup of Nations Morocco will be factored as one of the criterion in deciding a winner befitting of the status of the award and women’s football in general. The winner will be announced on 23 July 2022 during the final match of the Women’s AFCON.